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Vogelhochzeit at Rolf Dieter

doves meeting in the Piazza San Marco, Venice (photo: Alexandre Buisse )

relatively unnoticed in the Book Fair frenzy and anyway in the shadow of Jonathan Franzen new major novel has Rowohlt thrown a small poem ribbon on the market, see ornithological the bird friend Franzen ( original envelope ) in no way inferior.

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's early Poems, therefore now exist under the title "imagination of my hands" to that in the "stills" collected first volume of poetry and show the form-smashers still in an indecisive phase between tradition and renewal. Whoever wins the Verskaskaden from "Paint Your 1 & 2" in the ear is true here on a trial and error, which also does not hesitate to anaphora:

one says that the birds die
one says that the Dunk is moon-page uninhabited
one says that so to live well

was at all birds, if it in these early poems something of a theme, then there is clearly a feathered. Brink's birds indicate the year, threatening to her mouth laughing about scarecrows; girl lashes for 'nests of sparrows ", here is a blackbird flying across the screen, there a cuckoo, and the birds are a symbol of poetry itself -" The Birds and the poetry ":

are re
the birds in the air
and fill them with feathers and talons (...)
it again
birds in the air, just as do words in

bridges and clocks.

course are included in "Presentation of my hands," some bird loose poems, such as the "Rondo for Male ', beat-inspired as "Park declared dead" "My Bonnie Is Over the Ocean" or even a reply to Stefan George. But the early-bird Brinkmannsche wedding should be mentioned - what is done herewith.

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann:
imagination of my hands
Early Poems
Rowohlt, 2010
96 pages, 16 €